The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
Borgman: Presto is mostly Facebook internal, while Trino is the mainstream branch
“They started as identical copies, but the code bases have diverged quite a bit. And today Presto is really just used by Facebook. So it's sort of like their own private branch in a way used by a small number of people. And Trino has become the mainstream commu…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 13:00 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
Assertion Contradicted
Apache Kafka was built on prior engineering work at Yahoo
“Things like Kafka eventually came out of LinkedIn that was based on work that we had been doing at Yahoo”
Dave Burgess Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 2:38 Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Narkhede: Apache Kafka powers over 1.2 trillion written messages daily at LinkedIn
“You know, Kafka powers more than, ah, 1.2 trillion messages, ah, written per day. It is, ah, it powers more than 3.4 trillion, ah, messages, ah, read per day. All that amounts to more than one petabyte of streaming data. And that is across thousands of produce…”
Neha Narkhede Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 9:48 A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Assertion Partly supported
Justin Borgman: Starburst created Trino, used by Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn
“We're the creators of an open source project called Trino, which is a pretty popular project used by a lot of the Big internet companies like Netflix and Airbnb and LinkedIn and so forth.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 1:47 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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